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Bianca De Sanctis

@bdesan.bsky.social
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Postdoc at @geneticscam.bsky.social . Mathematical population genetics, ancient sedimentary DNA, molecular ecology. bdesanctis.github.io

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
baltic v1.0.0 is live! Get it via pip or clone from Github repo. Now with documentation (baltic.readthedocs.io) & a gallery of tutorials & examples (phylo-baltic.github.io/baltic-gallery, still WIP). Huge thanks to @barney-potter.bsky.social for all the initiative & help along the way. #ViroSky
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE ARE HIRING! A Research Laboratory Technician to join the team in the Cagan group at the Department of Genetics. Closing date 4 October 2026 Apply Via www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... For more details about our group see www.gen.cam.ac.uk/cagan-group.
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Cagan Group | Department of Genetics
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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are advertising a 3 year postdoc position for a project on ARGs and structural variation! Based at Oxford stats. Closing date noon 12 October, full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Molly Przeworski @mollyprz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Job opportunity at Columbia U., in "any combination of field, experimental, computational, or theoretical approaches to study fundamental questions in evolutionary biology".
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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My lab is hiring two(!) postdocs interested in (1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics www.microbialgamut.com/mGAMUT_postd...
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background
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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come be my colleague! Montreal is a great place to live and work! Tenure Track position at @mcgill.ca in quantitative cell biology with a research program to address fundamental questions in biology. @futurepislack.bsky.social mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Assistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology - Department of Biology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Gemma Murray @gemmamurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m hiring two postdocs to join my group at UCL, both funded for 3 years, to investigate how commensal bacteria contribute to the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens. Please share! Links below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU266/r... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU268/r...
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Also, new this year: MolCellDevBioJobs! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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molcelldevbiojobs 2026-27
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!
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Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I am thrilled to share that UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint initiative in Computational Biomedicine! cdss.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk... We will soon be recruiting new faculty and postdoctoral fellows. Please repost to help spread the word.
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UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical c...
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Terrific resource, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource
The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) aims to produce complete and near-error-free reference genomes for all ∼70,000 extant vertebrate species. Organized in four phases, it progressively targets all ve...
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📢 We are hiring! 🧬 We’re looking for a Research Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of Genetics 🧪 🔗 For more details, follow the link below! 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to join an interactive research group led by Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. The Research ...
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Brian D. Wade @astrobrian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars #Mars #astrobiology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars
Organics were found with carbonate and sulfate minerals and a silicate-dominated rock matrix in Jezero crater mudstones.
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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ever wanted to use metagenomic data to infer oxygen levels (or the oxygen preferences of whole bacterial communities)? We have the tool for you: journals.asm.org/eprint/9GUIR...
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Predicting oxygen levels in microbial habitats using a metagenome-based approach | mSystems
Oxygen is one of the most important environmental variables affecting microbial activity and composition, but is often difficult to measure in situ. We developed a tool, OxyMetaG, that leverages diffe...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/06/2026
A paper in Nature describes plague outbreaks dating back to around 5,500 years ago documented in hunter-gatherer communities from southeast Siberia. The findings, based on an analysis of ancient DNA, may be the oldest-known evidence of the plague and could shed light on its origins. 🧬🏺🧪
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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature
Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far from the next known cases of infection in Late Neolithic Europe.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).
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Brock Wooldridge @tywooldr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A big postdoc project of mine is now out in PNAS! Please take a look if you're interested in marine invertebrates, ancient DNA, inversions over time, genomic erosion, rapid adaptation, and more! (photos thanks to Sarah Ford and Michael Ready) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 11/05/2026
🧪🧬VACANCY - Senior Staff Scientist in Bioinformatics Are you ready to take a leading role in bioinformatics and support plant science? Join us and lead our bioinformatics support facility that is part of a strong and collaborative bioinformatics environment. Apply👇: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Senior Staff Scientist in Bioinformatics
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A short piece about what "the pangenome" is and is not. open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...
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The Pangenome Is Not a Parts List
The pangenome is the total genetic repertoire of a group of organisms. It is a property of populations, maintained by evolutionary processes.
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
oh my god base #rstats 4.6.0 has the %notin% operator now what will I do with all my new free time?
Patch notes from R 4.6.0 describing base NOT IN operator
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Computational Biology Program Scientist
MIT - Computational Biology Program Scientist - Cambridge MA 02139
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Timothy Hopkins @geologyrocks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to new research.🧪
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Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread
In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to resea...
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Russ Corbett-Detig @russcd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
eDNA is possibly the coolest application! Below: read-level placement across a pan-vertebrate mitochondrial pangenome (left) where a clear cluster of read assignments supports the presence of many mammoth reads (right). Processing ~9 billion reads took just 8 minutes!
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Russ Corbett-Detig @russcd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Alex Kramer, Alan Zhang and friends posted our preprint today. In it, we introduce Panmap, a tool for phylogenetic placement, assembly, lineage abundance estimation, and eDNA assignment using phylogenetic pangenomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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EcoArch - ERC Synergy Project @ecoarch-project.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New postdoctoral position adverstised in ancient sedimentary DNA and palaeoecology: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in palaeoecology and sedimentary ancient DNA (298945) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in palaeoecology and sedimentary ancient DNA (298945), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️
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ARTIC network @artic.network · 12/03/2026
ARTIC are hiring! Postdoctoral opportunity in metagenomics at the University of Birmingham edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) - School of Biosciences - 107071 - Grade 7
This post-doctoral position will contribute to both complementary programmes, developing ‘broadband’ metagenomic sequencing capabilities for rapid detection and characterisation of emerging and unknow...
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Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We're pulling together the genomes for GlobDB release 232, which will be based on the upcoming GTDB release. We will also add new sources of genomes not in INSDC. Here's an overview of the data that will be included in the next GlobDB: globdb.org/news Please contact me if we've missed something!🦠🖥️🧬
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News | GlobDB
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026 #evobio #molbio
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The core-pivotal index: a geometry-first approach to academic impact
The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements. Such an index wo
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/03/2026
A glimmer sparked by electrical fields has been detected in nature for the first time. Learn more: scim.ag/3OGhOlM
In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...
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Selina Brace @selinabrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March. Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Environmental DNA:Whiteknights Reading UK
We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Open Senior Bioinformatician position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life, to work on the Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative with @marakat.bsky.social and me. 📅 Apply by January 18 🔗 sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco... Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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Senior Bioinformatician - Biodiversity Cell Atlas
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!
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Molecular Biology of Archaea: Life Through the Prism of Archaea
In 1977, Woese and colleagues revealed Archaea as a distinct domain of life. Building on this insight, the discovery of Asgard archaea has strengthened the view that many hallmarks of eukaryotic cell…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Announcing bamdam: a new open source tool for studying ancient DNA 🧬 It shrinks massive metagenomic files by 10x and helps distinguish ancient sequences from contamination. Tested on the oldest DNA yet uncovered (2M years) link.springer.com/article/10.1... @bdesan.bsky.social @russcd.bsky.social
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Bamdam: a post-mapping authentication toolkit for ancient metagenomics - Genome Biology
Ancient metagenomic studies using capture or shotgun sequencing often perform pairwise alignment of individual reads against large reference databases followed by lowest common ancestor assignment for...
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
@cademirch.bsky.social @erikenbody.bsky.social TB Sackton & @russcd.bsky.social introduce Callable Loci And More (clam), a tool that leverages callable loci to accurately estimate population genetic statistics (π, dxy, and FST). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf282 #evobio #molbio #compbio
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Efficient Estimation of Nucleotide Diversity and Divergence Using Callable Loci (and More)
Abstract. The increasing scale of population genomic datasets presents computational challenges in estimating summary statistics such as nucleotide diversi
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution
Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio
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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. ➡️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...
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Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent
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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What's living in the dark, isolated subglacial waters underneath the Antarctic ice sheet, and why should we care? Read our new preprint to find out! It combines ancient DNA, microbiology, hydrology and geochemistry. 🦠🇦🇶🪨🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ancient metagenomics reveals subglacial microbiomes driven by oxygen availability
Beneath Earth's glaciers and ice sheets lies an aquatic realm where ice, water, rock, and microbial life interact, driving chemical reactions that can collectively influence the global carbon cycle, p...
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Daniel Podlesny @podlesny.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 24/11/2025
Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation
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Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits
Microbiomes, the complex communities of microorganisms associated with multicellular hosts, play a vital role in shaping host traits and fitness. But how d
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